A Digital Arts Residency delivers portable computer technology and a team of specially trained staff right to teachers and students. With this immediate support over a number of class sessions, participating students complete digital arts projects that connect directly with the coursework and extracurricular activities on which their school day is focused.

A Digital Arts Residency includes introductory sessions for participating teachers and preparatory and planning sessions for students. Residencies are typically delivered at the school site over a five-day period. Depending upon the scope of a school’s needs and resources, program support can also be extended outside the school day and/or school setting.

For students, the project-based focus of the Digital Arts Residency provides an opportunity to explore new modes of expression, new ways of working independently and with peers, and new ways of seeing their own relationship to their academic goals and objectives.

For teachers, these sessions are often equally beneficial. Working together with Mobile Digital Arts staff, teachers have the opportunity to explore project-based lessons in their classrooms. They gain hands-on experience working with computers and get immediate answers to technical and pedagogical questions as they arise.